Jen Levy has served as the Executive Director of the Association of Nature Center Administrators since May 2007. Her professional experience includes environmental education, nonprofit nature center management, and service on several boards. She has degrees in wildlife management and recreation resource management and her graduate work included the Professional Residency in Environmental Education at Teton Science Schools.
Growing up in New Jersey, Jen attended programs and hiked the trails at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and Somerset County Environmental Education Center, where she later spent a summer on the education staff. Her early career includes work at The Greenway and Nature Center in Pueblo Colorado, Gore Range Science School (now Walking Mountains) in Avon Colorado, and Stokes Nature Center in Logan Utah. All of these experiences provided new perspectives on the nature center profession, and continue to inform Jen's work today.
Now with more than two decades of leadership in the field, Jen serves as the link between the profession and its stakeholders. Please contact her with questions about ANCA's programs and services, partnerships and collaborations, and overall strategic direction.
In her free time, Jen enjoys skiing, hiking, and exploring the west in a Shasta Airflyte trailer with her husband Sean and their two mountain mutts.
